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Like many of the great Irish writers before him, Dermot Healy first announced himself as a writer of intricate and innovative short stories. Healy's stories are set in small-town Ireland and its rural environs, and in the equally suffocating confines of the Irish expat communities in London. Throughout these texts, Healy demonstrates a deep sense of compassion towards the marginalized and the dispossessed, without ever becoming sentimental or cliched. The language is earthy and imagistic by turn, and he continually seeks to extend the formal boundaries of the genre. Gathering all of Healy's stories together for the first time, this collection includes the long prose-drama ""Before the Off"" and Healy's final short works, ""Along the Lines"" and ""Images.""

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One of the most distinctive voices in recent fiction and poetry. --The Guardian

"""One of the most distinctive voices in recent fiction and poetry.""--The Guardian"

""One of the most distinctive voices in recent fiction and poetry.""--The Guardian

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Dermot Healy (1947-2014) is the author of the memoir The Bend for Home, the collection Banished Misfortune and Other Stories, and four award-winning novels: Fighting with Shadows, A Goat's Song, Sudden Times, and Long Time, No See. He also wrote five collections of poems and thirteen stage plays. Elected to Aosdna in 1986, he was the recipient of two Hennessy Literary Awards, the Tom-Gallon Award, the Encore Award, and the AWB Vincent American Ireland Fund Literary Award. Keith Hopper taught Literature and Film Studies at Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education and currently teaches Writing &Literature at the Instituteof Technology, Sligo. He is the author of Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-ModernistTimes Literary Supplement. Neil Murphy is a Professor of English at NTU, Singapore. He is the author of Irish Fiction and Postmodern Doubt has published widely on contemporary Irish fiction.

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